The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-01-01
Prenez!Garde Awake.

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sleeep overcame me, from which / have
Just now awoke, to behold reverses which
If they had been predicted by a prophet,
he would have been scoffed at, as a mad
| fanatic.
Some mysterious agent has evoked a
genius, that without Dynamite or Cor
porate Coercives; but with grace and
ease penetrates every avenue of life, and
fills the highest positions of honor and
profit; the cynosure of an admiring peo-
pie.
When fell into that protracted sleep;
l left woman submissive, and Obedient to
her husband, active in household duties,
and in the amenities of life, but totally
dependant on "the lords of creation" hav-
ing no means of subsistence, save from
her needle, knitting and spinning, or
menial services; the husband was Pater-
FamiliO: Governor Of all interests public
and private. To my utter conclusion on
awaking, l behold women rObed in regal
attire, riding as it were, on sunbeams.
Husbands that prove unfortunate, or un-
fit for the business of life. cause their
wives to sequester the community of ac-
quits, and gains under the variety of
pretenses which blot our records, the
wife becomes virtually the Pater-Familio
the husband an irresponsible retainer,
all the family interests center in the
wife individually, she being alone res
pOnsible and accountable. which throws
her into the conflict of interests, and
brings her under the eye of the law which
she naturally charms, and when under
its cover, her struggles there betray a
discOrd; every cherished enactment for
her protection, every intent and object
thereof she attempts to pervert, and con-
vert into protection of her irresponsi-
BILE retainer in mis- frauds, On confding
creditors; from the arms of the law she
snatches the weapons extended in her
defense. and brandishes them against
the Law itself, contracts, obligations;
the liabilities of debtor to creditor are
all trampled on; to the officers of the Law
she bids defiant stand of, "I'll none Of
you" but then and there, from her sevels
in the regions Of fancy, she has to des-
cend-tO those of stern reality.
A new phase now presents itself to
view; In the arts she is prominent; in
the sciences law and medicine she is dis
tinguished; in poetry she sings in har-
mOny with the heavenly muses.; in fiction
she weaves webb of characters of abSor-
bing interest; produces contrasts most
subtle, and enchants with her description
of scenery. In the Press she is power
moulding public thought, through her
editorials. For the protection Of the
native American and his cutters, that
through successive governments have
been victimized by the government trick
sters Of the Indian Department, the nc
bility of the sex have incorporated them
selves; and to battle against the vendors
of Intoxicating liquors, that parent Of
of crimes which both fill our prisons and
penitentiaries, and initiate into wretch
edness those that indulge, they have be-
come apCwer acknowledged by the sever
al states where the prohibition ticket has
carried the elections: The pOIygamy Of
the MOrnons they have taken no action
on. submitting that particular to the
better discretion of the males. She is at
work in the Telegraph and POst-Oflices
and that she would betray the secrets OF